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3 Study this selection of newspaper headlines and answer the questions. The Irish Times Charity condemns State’s housing record RTÉ Charity helped 270 households secure homes last year Evening Herald Charity’s new campaign aims to dispel myths around homelessness Drogheda Independent Sleep out for the homeless Irish Independent Homeless in overnight Dáil protest a) Why do you think the overnight protest was held outside the Dáil? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ b) What do you understand by the Evening Herald headline? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ c) Name three charities which could be the ones referred to in the headlines. 1 ___________________________ 2 ___________________________ 3 ___________________________ d) Choose one of the headlines and write the article which you think followed. Headline Article _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 58 CSPE Exam-style questions
Section 3 1 Your school decides to hold an awareness-raising event to highlight the needs of people who are homeless. a) Write a short speech for a school assembly, describing the event you and your classmates are planning. You should include three different activities which will take place during the day. (6 marks) b) Design a poster that you would use to promote awareness of the problem of homelessness. (6 marks) c) Name and explain two skills that you and your classmates would use while raising awareness of this issue. (8 marks) 2 Having studied homelessness in your CSPE class, you and your classmates have decided to invite a key worker from Focus Ireland in order to find out more about the issue. a) Write a letter inviting this person to your class. In your letter: > explain why you are inviting them > explain what you wish to learn from the visit > outline some of the information you have already learned about homelessness. (8 marks) b) List six questions which you could ask during the visit. (6 marks) c) Describe the work of three committees that you would set up in order to organise the visit. (6 marks) 3 Your local community has become involved in a fund-raising event to raise money to help people who are homeless. a) Name one organisation that you think should receive the funds raised. Give two reasons why you think this organisation should be supported. (8 marks) b) Write a short article for your local newspaper describing the fund-raising event. (6 marks) c) Draw a sketch of a poster that you would use to encourage people to support this event. (6 marks) 4 You and your CSPE class have decided to carry out a survey on attitudes to homelessness in your school. a) Describe two classroom activities that you would organise which would help your CSPE class to plan and prepare this survey. (8 marks) b) Write three questions that you would ask in this survey. Give a reason for asking each question. (6 marks) c) Describe two ways that your class could present their findings to the rest of the school. (6 marks) CSPE Exam-style questions 59
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